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Kubuntu plans to steer clear of Mir and switch to Wayland

Kubuntu plans to avoid using Canonical's display server Mir and to instead continue using an X server for KDE on versions 13.10 and 14.04 LTS, after which the plan is to switch to Wayland, according to a blog post by Kubuntu developer Jonathan Riddell, formerly of Canonical.

Riddell mentions that it is not yet known what will happen if an Ubuntu user switches to a Kubuntu desktop or vice versa, saying that they'll "have to find a way to deal with that in a sensible manner". There could also be problems with maintaining Wayland support in Ubuntu's package repositories and already "fiddly" Live CD systems are a problem with just X, says Ridell, "never mind with three different graphics systems".